cited in appointing mulvaney. i think one of the things i would add to what laura said is that i think as part of this legal process, they re probably also going to explore the constitutionality of the structure. you saw that director mulvaney actually talked about that, which is that he believes the structure he s currently operating under is unconstitutional. and i think we have seen the federal district court actually start to explore some of those questions. it will be interesting whether or not to see they explore it as part of this legal fight. to be very clear, the president absolutely will be able to appoint and the senate will confirm ultimately who will run the cfpb. the question in the court who is gets to run it until the senate confirms that particular person? what they re fighting over is who gets to run it right now and whether the president is entitled to name that person or whether the deputy director should be there. we re going to take a quick. a ton to talk abou
bret: you see the senate minority leader on what he thinks the choice for white house budget director mick mulvaney now, according to the white house, the acting director of the consumer financial protection bureau. the lady on the left side of the screen, leandra english, start of the day thinking she was still the director, appointed by the outgoing director. she was the deputy. mulvaney came in, essentially delivering doughnuts, saying this is my job and i m going to that the desk. later held a news conference saying i m the guy. sent out an email this morning purporting to be the active director. you disagree with that? i want to make it clear to folks working here. the past practices under the previous director and the previous administration were used more to advance political ambitions and not about
there are independent agencies for it a reason. imagine similarly he tried to have the new director of the fbi also simultaneously be an employee at the hus. that s not permissible. that s also highly onorthodox. nick mulvaney is not a big fan of this agency. take a listen to what he said about it back in 2014. it s a wonderful example of how a bureaucracy will functions if it has no accountability to anybody. it turns up being a joke, and that s what the sfpb has been in a sick kind of way. because you ve got anintsitution that has trumendish accountability over what it does for your members, but there s nothing that your elected members of government can do to help you to protect you against say overreach or abuse by that institution. so it s extraordinarily frightening. put aside this is another example of the president
branch to an agency mulvaney voted to get rid of and called a joke. do you believe cfpb is a sad, sick joke? yes i do. mulvaney said he would get rid of it if he could even as he tries to lead it. other agencies can probably do this job just as if not more effectively. english is suing the trump administration but today the white house press secretary said the takeover is already complete. director mulvaney has taken charge of the agency. he has a full cooperation of the staff. the cfpb was established by barack obama as part of the dodd-frank reforms in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. the consumer financial protection bureau will be a watchdog for the american consumer. five his side, senator elizabeth warren who has become one of the cfpb s biggest champions. this afternoon she met with english on capitol hill. she was clearly on the
white house budget director mick mulvaney named acting director of the consumer financial protection bureau on friday by president trump. versus leandre english, named to the same post by the outgoing obama-era director. monday morning, no one knew who was really in charge of the nation s top consumer financial watchdog agency. mulvaney s team fired off a shot of this picture of him sitting in the director s office, hard at work. he later said my name is on the door. minutes later, english sent an email to staff saying she was in charge. that prompted mulvaney to send out his own email instructing staffers to please disregard any instructions received from ms. english and her presumed capacity as acting director. adding please stop by the fourth floor to say hello and grab a doughnut. an empty doughnut box, an olive